I ran a complete KDE3 desktop back in the day with 256MB of RAM shared with Kopete and inline videos, Konqueror with several tabs open AND Amarok in the background.
These kids are truly spoiled. Even with 1GB today could be enough if you know how to set Unbound + a light browser.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”
by TheRealPomax on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:18AM
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You say that as if you never bought a raspberry pi because it lets you use Mathematica. There's many of us who did, because a pi is <$100 and a home use license for Mathematica is $300+
If you need a pi because you want to run something on it that'll run just as well on a pi 2, then sure 2GB is perfectly fine. But if you actually need a pi 4, you need it because it is vastly more powerful and offers actually useful amounts of memory.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”
by a1369209993 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:07PM
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Why would I? Mathematica sucks, as you should be able to infer just from (in your own words):
> a home use license for Mathematica is $300+
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”
by TheRealPomax on Monday July 06, 2020 @01:42PM
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That's just a bizarre thing to conclude, I think we're done here.
I remember when EMACS was "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"; there is something deeply fucking wrong with modern software if two thousand megabytes isn't enough for it to run smoothly.